Chronicle editor Jeff Cohen has been named Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation:
Houston Chronicle Editor Jeff Cohen accepted the National Press Foundation’s Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award on Thursday, telling a group of fellow journalists that burgeoning competition from diverse Internet information sources is an opportunity for traditional newspapers to excel.
Cohen’s accomplishments at the Houston Chronicle include:
- Helping the environment by reducing circulation
- Keeping costs low through massive layoffs
- Getting his golf handicap below 9
Congratulations, Jeff!
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Well, hell, his competition has shrunk considerably since so many newspapers have gone belly up.
By the same logic, Ted Kennedy should be named drinker of th year by A.A.
By the way, the story says he “accepted” the award. Does this suggest others might reject it?
Looks like another case of the blind leading the blind.
If he is editor of the year, what does that say about the competition?
If those numbers are true then the rest of the newspaper editors must be doing a worse job then the Crummyicle editor. So they get awarded for trying to save a dying industry, that’s good.
What they really need to make the Chronicle a first class news paper is to buy the Software - Common Sense for Dummies. That should help them.
I want the Chronicle to stay afloat as long as my guinea pigs are alive. It makes a great bedding material.
The selection of Houston Chronicle’s Jeff Cohen as Editor of the Year was an excellent choice. I can’t tell you the improvement in the Chronicle. I used to have to change the lining in my bird cage three times a week, but now the Chronicle seems to absorb so much better and also cuts down on the ‘bird urine’ smell; therefore, now I change only it twice a week. Nothing beats having a great bird cage liner delivered to my house for free. Thanks Jeff.
Peter, don’t you think your birds would like a real newspaper lining their cage?
“As competitors increase, so does the importance of what we do best: hard-nosed, accurate and compelling reporting, superb research, full accountability for fairness and balance, and, on our best days, shedding light on things some would like to keep in the dark,” Jeff Cohen
The answer to Hard-nosed is yes; but all other claims by Cohen are false - especially on fairness in reporting. One example is the war in Iraq - where I come from. Jeff Cohen & his staff have not allowed me to write a single column against the war in Iraq over the past 15 years but they have given an unlimited access to Dr. Mehdi Al-Bassam - a houston cardiologist also from Iraq - to write in favor of the war in Iraq. The chronicle always fails to mention that Dr. Al-Bassam is Ahmad Chalabi’s nephew.
Neither Cohen nor his staff have a grain of fairness in their blood. They have mastered deception
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell